Climate change will significantly alter how sound travels underwater, potentially affecting natural soundscapes as well as accentuating human-generated noise, according to a new global study that identified future ocean “acoustic hotspots.”

Coral reefs in the Gulf of Eilat have been proven particularly resistant to global warming, rising water temperatures and bleaching events that are crippling their counterparts elsewhere around the world. 

eDNA provides an affordable alternative to measure fish populations.

Agencies seek public comment on implementation strategy for Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions.

The first comprehensive study of international literature on wildlife rehabilitation shows that human activity is one of several factors that influences outcome for injured or displaced wildlife.

More than 100,000 acres have burned in a mid-March wildfire outbreak.

Biologists have developed a new method to measure the extent to which regional geographic features — including barriers between regions, like mountains or water — affect local rates of speciation, extinction and dispersal for species.

Seabirds such as kittiwakes and puffins are being put at higher risk because of a disconnect between conservation efforts on the ground, and research knowledge of the threats to these birds from climate change.

Marine cold spells are cold versions of heat waves: periods of exceptionally cold water, able to hurt or help the ecosystems they hit. 

Ecosystem provides good forage for many species according to the latest California Current Ecosystem Status Report.